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Originally Posted by OTW
It's interesting to see this discussion about NMs being minors.
I know that it was definitely a different kind of time when our organizations were founded, but I recall reading somewhere that several our Founders were teenagers themselves when they established our organizations.
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It's interesting to read stuff about how the age at which people were regarded as essentially adult or mature has changed over time.
The founders were amazing and it's hard to imagine very many groups of undergraduate woman today who would be able to do something similar today, at least in part because of additional red tape everywhere.
This is kind of a different issue from the legal idea of being under 18, but I think about how much additional concerns were introduced with the drinking age became 21. It happened before I was in college, so I didn't witness the change first hand, but it would seem like going from almost everyone in the group being legally adult for all purposes to the idea that some people are minors in some areas was probably weird too.